The power of Internet

Last saturday I spend the day in Friesland, 

one of our provinces in the North of the Netherlands. 

A province my dad was born in, 

and also a province of which he was very proud.

 My dad would tell me about Grote Pier,

 a Frisian Warrior who lived in the 1500!

 Anyhow it was the American Jane A. Sticklen of the 1800's

 who took me to Friesland, 

the land of my father, 

the land he loved,

last saturday.

Jane Stickle, 

I have said her name so many times by now. 

Have told about her, time and time again,

Spoke of the time she lived in.

I have been so lucky to have been invited to tell others about her,

over and over again.  

And every single time when I step out of my own door

and step over new thresholds I do so with great pleasure. 

Last saturday I saw something in a Dear Jane Quilt I had not seen before.

This broken coffee pot in one of the corners. 

I know for a fact that this is NOT in the original version. 

I was lucky enough to have visited the Bennington Museum last year!

And in this lovely small museum I found myself 

up close and personal with Janes legacy!

My sister and I sat infront of her for quite a while. 

Just imagine, a quilt, made by a lady we would otherwise never ever have heard of, 

and now we were watching her work. 

I loved it, loved her perfect imperfections. 

Loved her craftsmanship, 

her creativity and personally I loved it to see her mistakes too!

 It made her human!

It made her one of us,

just a quilter,

nothing more nothing less.

I Loved it to see her choice of fabrics.

Fabrics that we can still buy, great reproductions, today!

I was truly amazed by the differences in the original quilt, 

and the quilt we patch today.

Not to mention the fact that in the original the sashings are 

sometimes left out all together.

Despite these differences there is no deconstructed coffee pot to be found!

Yesterday, all the way from the state of Washington the following message came from Sharyn Mallow Woerz;

Den Haan en Wagenmakers commissioned a quilt based on Jane Stickle’s using a full line of their fabric. The corner block was a deconstructed coffee pot. They sold posters of this modified DJ quilt in 2000.

I must admit that I have that very same poster!

I should take a proper look at it!

Thanks Sharyn, another mystery solved. 

Just wanted to share this new found information!

And because Sharyn provided me I thought to do it in english!

Take care,

Make today an amazing one!

Tot blogs,

Juud,

Remember; Better finished than perfect